Business Development Associate - Fresh Meadows, Queens

Premium Merchant Funding; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Premium Merchant Funding, a leading brokerage in the alternative lending space, is hiring sales professionals to convert warm leads into funding applications and build lasting client relationships.

In a fast-growing environment, you will work with business owners seeking capital, supported by a team and scalable platform. Success is measured by deal flow, client retention, and earnings via on-target commissions.

Qualifications

• Prior sales experience in financial services or lending preferred.
• Ability to manage multiple leads and meet quotas.
• Discipline, accountability, and competitive drive.

Responsibilities

• Generate funding applications from warm leads and build client relationships.
• Collaborate with closers to close deals and exceed targets.
• Utilize the PMF platform to manage your pipeline and fuel growth.
• Prospect and nurture new business opportunities to expand the client base.

Skills

Sales experience

Lead generation

Relationship building

Job description

\"Don't ever let somebody tell you you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you protect it.\"

In The Pursuit of Happyness Will Smith played a man who worked 100 percent commission with no salary, no guarantee, and no safety net. He protected his dream anyway. That was 1981. In 2026 a salary is no longer the safety net people think it is. The cost of living has outpaced what a fixed income can provide and anyone building a life in New York already knows it. The only real security is what you build for yourself. That is what this role offers.

Who We Are

Premium Merchant Funding is one of the largest brokerage platforms in the alternative lending industry.

Twelve years ago we were one office. Today we are 26 offices spread across 4 countries, with international lender partners, 30+ capital products, more than $7 billion in funded deals, and a new headquarters at 1 New York Plaza. We take pride in the fact that every one of those 26 offices is run by someone who started in this exact role.

At PMF we fund American business when the big banks tell them no. We support restaurants, contractors, trucking companies, clinics, retailers, the real operators who need capital in days, not quarters.

What You Do

Simple. We provide warm leads from business owners who are already looking for capital. You generate the funding application and build the relationship from those leads. Our closers bring it home. Right now the economy is driving more business owners to us than ever and our leads are up 200 percent. We have the systems, the products, and the team to back you up.

Why Alternative Lending?

Alternative lending is where the capital went when the banks started pulling back, and it is still growing in 2026. Non-bank private capital now funds American businesses that traditional credit will not touch, and that gap widens every time lending and regulation standards tighten.

It moves faster than investment banking, it pays on execution instead of tenure, and it does not ask you to hand over your twenties and thirties in exchange for a title. Every file is a different business, a different owner, and a different problem for you to solve. Your career will advance based on the deals you close and the book of business you build, not on the years you clock in.

What Success Looks Like?

On Target Earnings. Year one OTE $60,000-125,000. Year two OTE of 100,000-250,000

A Book You Own. Most sales jobs reset to zero on the first of the month. This one does not. Your clients return and refer, which is why the third year on the desk looks nothing like the first.

A Growing Industry. Alternative lending is expanding while traditional credit tightens. You are getting on the elevator on the way up, in a business where the deal flow grows with the economy's pressure, not against it.

The Floor.

Fresh Meadows, Queens, located in the Utopia Center: A team that competes to be the top office in the company every single day and celebrates when it wins.

Who Thrives Here

Sales professionals. If you have worked the door, the phone, or the floor, you already have the foundation and you will ramp faster than anyone.

Veterans and college athletes. Disciplined, accountable, and built for environments where performance is the only scoreboard. A significant number of our office managers come from this background.

Campus leaders and recent graduates. If you ran an organization, led a room, or held peers accountable, you already think like someone who belongs on this floor.